Good luck hun!!
It's been every time so far, but less and less so. Hurts way less when you use the Lasinoh cream every time. Right now I'm pumping about 30oz / day and she drinks anywhere from 25-30 so I'm getting ahead little by little. I'm getting some fenugreek and blessed thistle tomorrow, it's supposed to seriously amp up your supply. Going to take that for a couple months so that I can get ahead of her even more. I'm still trying to get her to latch but have been doing this until then. I had to supplement with formula for two nights. It sucked because no one told me that high iron for combi feeding is reeeally bad. She's been off it for a week and it's still messing with her system. So if you combi feed get the "sensitive" one from similac with low iron. Expressing is sooo much more demanding then it seems.
I set it up so that I can sleep a bit more at night, but our "routine" is
up at seven, feed/change her, pump for twenty minutes, wash bottles, take a nap,
up at ten am, feed/change, pump for twenty minutes, eat breakfast, sanitize bottles,
up at noon, feed/change, wash bottles, she stays up for an hour, tryyyy to pump again before she's up.
Up at four, same, try to pump twice, get dressed lol.
Up at 7, same, pump twice.
Up at ten, same, go to timmies mmm, pump twice.
Bed, up at one, pump, dishes, bed.
Up at four, same.
Basically changing, feeding and bottles take up an hour and a half every time. Pumping is twenty minutes each time so about 20-40 minutes. Then trying to squeeze in other stuff. The pumping takes like 3-4 hours of "me" time every day, but at least I can go on BnB during it hahaha. So when I finally get her to latch and I don't have the dishes and pumping to do, it'll be soooo nice. I don't se why people choose to FF when it.s so much more work lol! I wanna BF from cost and labour reasons only. Easier, cheaper.
Looks like I'm in for another 40+ day cycle for some reason...????
